What’s troubling to me is that the maid girl (Mecha Maid? The name escapes me) isn’t present below them in that one panel. Where has she gone? Was she not drawn for artistic effect in that she’s either behind Link or off-panel to the left or right, or because she already reacted and moved away, to do whatever she’s about to do?

Notice Bax is holding something only vaguely gun-like but NOT shooting. Perhaps he is running some sort of interference against Mechtech? I imagine figuring out how she did that and blocking against the effect would not just be priority #1 for the tech crew, but an absolute requirement before they would dare an engagement like this.